If you need to hit a nail, what tool do you ask for? If you say "hammer," do you pronounce the "r"? Do you drop the "h"? Different people pronounce the same English words in different ways. People ...

There are many different ways of speaking English in the UK, with people using different regional dialects in different parts of the country. For example, some people would say “give it me” while ...

Southern dialects may be spreading across the UK, but the North is pushing back in some areas, new research has shown. The research by the University of York, Lancaster University and New York ...

The British Library has assembled a unique digital collection that allows researchers and students to examine the evolution of spoken English. The collection includes 288 pairs of digital recordings ...

You might take that British or Minnesotan accent in your favorite film or TV show for granted, but that’s certainly not the case for whoever helms and writes a cinematic piece. Different English ...

The wide variety of accents and dialects that characterise the different regions of Britain are in decline, according to new research from Cambridge, which shows that we're all talking in a generic ...

With the British and Irish theatrical "invasions" seeming to have the permanence of the Empire State and Chrysler buildings in the New York landscape, it would seem that American actors should ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conditions in rural England around the turn of the 20th century offer a case study for cultural evolution researchers. Heritage ...